Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability (RAPS) Conference 2021

Description

This talk engages in a critical evaluation of the architect’s role, its professional profile and suggested impact on the built environment and society at large in relation to sustainability, computation and an increasing trend towards the quantitative. The at times ambivalent or even ambiguous definition of sustainability within disciplinary borders is being addressed, as its multiple interpretations within academia, industry and public discourse are cause of architecture’s indecisiveness in defining fitting modes of truly disruptive sustainable practice, particularly when engaging with computation, algorithm-aided simulation and analysis. This evaluation is undertaken within the larger framework of socio-economic, political and environmental complexities of our globalised world.

Architecture and architects will need to navigate these entangled technologies and realities for informed decision making, including for evaluating sustainability. For assessing the new palette of skills require by architects to do so, the argumentation follows a cross-scalar analysis, between the territorial, urban and building scale, highlighting material realities. A particular focus will be placed on the entanglement between human and non-human systems, of material and immaterial nature — ecosystems, infrastructure, the digital, materials.

Period	17 Sept 2021 → 18 Sept 2021
Held at	UWE Bristol, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	International